Eric Bana

“I've given no thought to moving to America at all.”

“As an actor I've been attracted to the sort of films that I want to go and see. That tends to usually be drama-related.”

“I wasn't going to be a college kid. The only subject I was interested in was English. I think I had a subconscious interest in analyzing story.”

“The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.”

“I'm always reading and looking around for the next thing.”

“There wasn't a moment where I got into cars. It wasn't a conscience decision or something that came later, it was there since I was born. I just love it.”

“I didn't study Greek mythology in school and I wish I had.”

“I'm not into bikinis or other revealing clothing.”

“My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.”

“Stand-up came out of three things. Frustration, necessity and arrogance. I didn't have a great career ahead of me in anything. Someone literally said to me, 'You should try stand-up,' and took me to a venue.”

“I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.”

“Over my lifetime, the car had actually transcended the fact that it is a car. It has become a venue.”

“You'll read things and say, this is a really good project and it's probably going to be a hit, but I can see 20 other people playing that part. You have to have some sense of ownership to do a good job and be married to it for ever.”

“I am attracted to characters who think they are in control, but their situation is uncontrollable.”

“My wife and I really, really like each other as well as love each other.”

“I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.”

“I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.”

“I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.”

“When I was a kid, I would do stupid things on my bike. I'd jump any ramp, I'd jump over people, I'd jump over things - always crashing, never hurting myself badly but always wanting to take physical risks.”